biological life

English

Noun

biological life (plural biological lives)

1. Synonym of life cycle
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see biological,‎ life.
   • 2005, Joseph Seckbach, Julian Chela-Flores, Tobias Owen, Life in the Universe, page 357:

     Life emerges as chemical life (branched proteins) that yields biological life (branched protein protocells).

   • 2014, John Kleinig, Valuing Life, page 140:

     It is claimed that human biological life is only a bonum utile — it is not valuable in itself but only as a means to or as a precondition of the actualization of human achievements that are valuble in themselves. Where the human biological life is of a kind that is lacking in the capacity for such intrinsically valuable achievement, it lacks even instrumental value.

   • 2020, Anne Sophie Meincke, John Dupré, Biological Identity:

     If indeed any composite things exist, so the claim goes,then these are living organisms—such as my rubber plant and myself—due to the strong unity of biological life which makes each organism preciesely one rather than many.

   • 2023, Werner Gitt, Information: The Key to Life, page 168:

     Biological life is neither matter (by itself) nor Universal Information (by itself) but both matter and information are necessary for biological life.